In message , James
writes
RV1 - run it with those fake heritage tram ye olde stylee buses you
find in foreign cities to amuse the tourists

How about using RMs on it instead?
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Ian Jelf wrote:
writes

RV1 - run it with those fake heritage tram ye olde stylee buses you
find in foreign cities to amuse the tourists

How about using RMs on it instead?

How about using RMs on busy routes instead???

As for the RV1, I think the existing buses are as good as anything else
at the moment, but in the future they should consider options such as
battery electric buses.

In message , Aidan Stanger
writes
Ian Jelf wrote:
writes

RV1 - run it with those fake heritage tram ye olde stylee buses you
find in foreign cities to amuse the tourists

How about using RMs on it instead?

How about using RMs on busy routes instead???
Well, yes I agree with you wholeheartedly but I think we've done that
one to death somewhat! ;-)

there is also much to be said for having RMs on a recognisably
"heritage" route. Not the commentary-equipped sightseeing ones but
something covering the central sections of the 11, 9 or 15, for example.

The 15 needs all the buses it can get, anyway, especially on District
Line Closure weekends but also generally. Some of you may remember my
postings here some months ago about the overcrowding on the route
to/from the Tower. This is something I've experienced several times
again since.......

As for the RV1, I think the existing buses are as good as anything else
at the moment, but in the future they should consider options such as
battery electric buses.
Well, when the route was inaugurated, I thought that the GPs-operated
information screens about nearby attractions were a really great,
innovative idea. I even heard many favourable comments from visitors
using the route. But they seem to have fallen out of use (and some
distinctly "ordinary" vehicles appear on the route nowadays in any
case).
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Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

"Ian Jelf" wrote in message
...

there is also much to be said for having
RMs on a recognisably "heritage" route.

There should be some double deckers over Tower Bridge.
Crossing it in a single decker is no fun.

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That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:26:04 +0000, Ian Jelf
wrote:

The 15 needs all the buses it can get, anyway, especially on District
Line Closure weekends but also generally. Some
of you may remember my postings here some months ago about the
overcrowding on the route to/from the Tower. This is
something I've experienced several times again since.......

I agree. I would increase the frequency of the 15, or extend the 115 to
Trafalgar Sq. I've lost count of the number of times I've stood at the
bus stop waiting for the 15, but had 6 No11s and 4 No23s turn up before a
15. Stagecoach, brewery, p***-up spring to mind.

I'd also extend the 262 back up to Walthamstow as I'm told it used to go.
It'd save me changing on to the 69.

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In message opsm8f7or2wn44ge@stephen, Stephen
writes
Stagecoach, brewery, p***-up spring to mind.

Why does everybody insist on blaming the operating companies when they
are just contractors to TfL?

It's TfL who are the ones who set these things.
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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 00:44:25 +0000, Steve Fitzgerald ]
wrote:

In message opsm8f7or2wn44ge@stephen, Stephen
writes
Stagecoach, brewery, p***-up spring to mind.

Why does everybody insist on blaming the operating companies when they
are just contractors to TfL?

It's TfL who are the ones who set these things.

To be fair the operational risk is with the operator. The OP was
complaining about the fact that route 15s didn't turn up relative to
other routes - I would put that down to Stagecoach.

The comment about improving the timetable or extending the 115 was a
proposed solution to the fact that he had waited too long for a bus. I
have to say that I don't understand the TfL logic of running the 23
every 4-5 minutes and yet the 15 is only half as frequent when in the
olden days they were effectively the same route.
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Paul C


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On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:22:26 -0000, Stephen wrote:

I'd also extend the 262 back up to Walthamstow as I'm told it used to go.

Indeed it did (c. 1980) Where does it go now, then?
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London Buses are now seeking planners:


ref TFL388/389 on their website.


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On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:53:48 +0000, Robert Woolley
wrote:

London Buses are now seeking planners:


ref TFL388/389 on their website.

I could either of those jobs standing on my head but they'd never employ
me!
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Paul C


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